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MixedCopilot · 24 Mar 2025

When I have used copilot conversation mode and requested a refactoring or provided what I felt was a clear description of my task, the result shave always been a failure that required more time to resolve than if I had just done the work myself

uberman on Hacker News

guesses incorrectly a third of the time

In the thread “Ask HN: Do you use AI to generate majority of your production code?”

Helped: Enhanced tab-completion for small blocks of code.

Got in the way: Conversation mode for refactoring or clear task descriptions.

… Is this "using ai to write 90% of my code"? When I have used copilot conversation mode and requested a refactoring or provided what I felt was a clear description of my task, the result shave always been a failure that required more time to resolve than if I had just done the work myself. These are issues I could see and determine where wrong. …